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no speech is illegal in the united states. but that is a hard thing for other people in the world to understand in a world where governments often do control speech, they do control the media and the arts and broadcast. so when egyptian television is reporting there's a bigoted crude american movie insulting islams and muslims, people who don't understand how american free speech works will think the american government okayed the movie. we do not ban speech, even stupid and offensive and provocative speech, we don't ban it. beyond all the chest-thumping by politicians right now about standing up for the right of
no speech is illegal in the united states. but that is a hard thing for other people in the world to understand in a world where governments often do control speech, they do control the media and the arts and broadcast. so when egyptian television is reporting there's a bigoted crude american movie insulting islams and muslims, people who don't understand how american free speech works will think the american government okayed the movie. we do not ban speech, even stupid and offensive and...
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when i become president of the united states, we will stop it. i will not cut our commitment to our military. >>reporter: mitt romney said he does not know how president obama could stand by and let that all happen. >>shepard: the 39 is in virginia, as well. they us about that event. >>reporter: he was in virginia beach, another big military community with a lot of pilots accusing governor romney of giving a huge tax cut to the rich and raising taxes on the middle class. gornor romney said he would not do that but would work to close a lot of the loopholes and deductions for wealthy americans. president obama took a a new tat today, wrapping himself in the flag asking voters for give him more time to fix the economy. >> if we rally around a new economic patriotism together we can rebuild this economy together. we will grow the middle class together. we will move forward together. i don't believe we are as divide as our politicians make us think. i think we have more in common than the pundits give us credit. >>reporter: governor romney is making
when i become president of the united states, we will stop it. i will not cut our commitment to our military. >>reporter: mitt romney said he does not know how president obama could stand by and let that all happen. >>shepard: the 39 is in virginia, as well. they us about that event. >>reporter: he was in virginia beach, another big military community with a lot of pilots accusing governor romney of giving a huge tax cut to the rich and raising taxes on the middle class....
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and president of the united states vowed to get their killings? >> i have known chris all that time. i know shawn we rock we were in iraq together. these were friends and colleagues but it was great to see at the same time they get the homecoming they deserved. diplomats are in harm's way they give their lives. it is often not recognized. i mentioned in my own case i was ambassador 6 times in three of those six countries i had a predecessor assassinated. he died for the cause, too, i appreciate very much the recognition the president the secretary and the whole country gave to our fallen diplomatic heros. >> ryan crocker one of america's heros. thank you very much ambassador. >> thank you geraldo. >> is israel trying to strong the president into attacking iran? who is the man. answers after this. >> way the perpetrators acted and moved i think we they were choosing the specific date for this so-called devastation. i think we have -- this leaves us with no doubt this was preplanned determined, predetermined. >> predetermined. my next guest scott ta
and president of the united states vowed to get their killings? >> i have known chris all that time. i know shawn we rock we were in iraq together. these were friends and colleagues but it was great to see at the same time they get the homecoming they deserved. diplomats are in harm's way they give their lives. it is often not recognized. i mentioned in my own case i was ambassador 6 times in three of those six countries i had a predecessor assassinated. he died for the cause, too, i...
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watch this. >> the united states government has nothing to do with this video. we absolutely reject its content and message. this video is disgusting and reprehensible. it appears to have a deeply cynical purpose, to denigrate a great religion and to provoke rage. >> sean: now, keep in mind, her movie critique came before she bothered to denounce the widespread vandalism, the arson, the gunfire and the molotov cocktails being directed at u.s. interest. what she and the president fail to recognize is the fact that the radical islamists who are protesting on the screen, they are not reacting to a movie. they haven't seen the movie. these are anti-american extremists who are hell bent on the destruction of this country. they are burning our flag, chanting death to america and spray-painted the name osama bin laden on the entrance to our embass necairo. not to mention the fact that all of this began on the anniversary of september 11, do you not have a clue that this might be connectd? i usually ask the question, can you afford four more years when speaking about th
watch this. >> the united states government has nothing to do with this video. we absolutely reject its content and message. this video is disgusting and reprehensible. it appears to have a deeply cynical purpose, to denigrate a great religion and to provoke rage. >> sean: now, keep in mind, her movie critique came before she bothered to denounce the widespread vandalism, the arson, the gunfire and the molotov cocktails being directed at u.s. interest. what she and the president...
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view the united states. they view us as a partner. they view us as somebody they want to work with. they view president obama as somebody they trust. our standing in the world is much stronger so it charge of weakness is really quite baseless. >> schieffer: do you think mitt romney spoke inappropriately when he criticized and issued a statement so early in this turmoil? >> bob, i think you know, in my role, i'm not going to jump into politics and make those judgments. that's for the american people to decide. >> schieffer: madam ambassador thank you for being with us. >> thank you very much. >> schieffer: and joining us now for his take on all this, the ranking republican on the senate armed services committee, john mccain. senator, you've got to help me out here. the president of libya says that this was something that had been in the works for two months, this attack. he blames it on al qaeda. susan rice says that the state department thinks it is some sort of a spontaneous event. what do you make of it? >
view the united states. they view us as a partner. they view us as somebody they want to work with. they view president obama as somebody they trust. our standing in the world is much stronger so it charge of weakness is really quite baseless. >> schieffer: do you think mitt romney spoke inappropriately when he criticized and issued a statement so early in this turmoil? >> bob, i think you know, in my role, i'm not going to jump into politics and make those judgments. that's for the...
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unless this world view, we get a more realistic assessment of the threat that the united states faces and officials and diplomats face and private citizens face in the middle east we'll never have an effective policy. you can't base an effective policy on delusion. >> you have been an advisor to romney campaign, how could a new president change this? >> you can't dig out of a hole quickly. i think it's got to be made clear to all the governments we do note accept their failure to protect our people. i think we have to have substantial increased intelligence throughout the region. we have to show to everybody that we still believe that there is a war on terror. certainly the terrorists haven't stopped. and we're going to stop some of the main sources of it, iranian funding of terrorists and others. >> you are a diplomat. you have been an ambassador for many years. what does it mean to you when chris stevens is murdered in cold blood? >> it's a terrible tragedy. it shows the vulnerability of americans out on point in a variety of different places. we focus on our service members and wel
unless this world view, we get a more realistic assessment of the threat that the united states faces and officials and diplomats face and private citizens face in the middle east we'll never have an effective policy. you can't base an effective policy on delusion. >> you have been an advisor to romney campaign, how could a new president change this? >> you can't dig out of a hole quickly. i think it's got to be made clear to all the governments we do note accept their failure to...
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president obama opening up a big lead in what may be the most crucial swing state in the united states. ohio. the republican candidate took note. >> welcome to cuyahoga county where we have more republicans register . we're going to deliver, too. so -- >> i need it in a big way, all right? >> he had a sense of humor, but he'll need more than just cuyahoga county to turn those poll numbers around. peter hamby joins me now. i know you had a chance to talk to strategists. what did they tell you? >> most republicans in ohio don't think the situation is that dire yet. they do acknowledge both inside the campaign and outside that they are losing and the main reason that the republicans in ohio point to is that romney doesn't really have a cohesive message and said this is why you should throw barack obama out and install me as president. the key issue is the bailout of chrysler and general motors that the president pushed through. they say romney hasn't been able to come up with a consistent answer to this and the obama campaign has been hammering on this. one republican i talked to put it v
president obama opening up a big lead in what may be the most crucial swing state in the united states. ohio. the republican candidate took note. >> welcome to cuyahoga county where we have more republicans register . we're going to deliver, too. so -- >> i need it in a big way, all right? >> he had a sense of humor, but he'll need more than just cuyahoga county to turn those poll numbers around. peter hamby joins me now. i know you had a chance to talk to strategists. what...
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but good for the united states . we want to be careful. we don't want to cut off our nose to spite our face. it is infurerating our ambassor and other americans were killed. but we have to review foreign aid on a case by case basis. for me it is not whether radicals are making troub. there are radical in every country. it is how the government responds to the radicals. in libya the government is responding positively . you can see the pro american demonstrations in the streets in egypt there was not a good response initially and the president was forceful and the egyptians changed their tune and condemned what happened. we have pomonitor all of these carefully and understand that foreign aid is good for us. i think each of those countries reassess. >> congressman franks is joining us. and on the armed services committee. isn't the problem with egypt seeing inconsistency . this is a weakness . so the leaders are not taking the leaders seriously. >> i believe that is right. the projection of weak. making it likely and theirinar and some vide
but good for the united states . we want to be careful. we don't want to cut off our nose to spite our face. it is infurerating our ambassor and other americans were killed. but we have to review foreign aid on a case by case basis. for me it is not whether radicals are making troub. there are radical in every country. it is how the government responds to the radicals. in libya the government is responding positively . you can see the pro american demonstrations in the streets in egypt there...
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protesters rising up in at least nine middle eastern countries today their target the united states. this is cairo tonight. you're looking at pictures here as you can see flames, molotov cocktails, hundreds of angry protesters amassed outside of the american embassy. security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets to hold them out. even canada out of caution closed their embassy in cairo. a photo cairo, it's a chalk drawing on the ground of a jewish star of david with the words, i'll translate, remember your black day september 11th within in arabic. and it is beyond cairo tonight. anti-u.s. demonstrators clashed in front of u.s. embassies, in israel, sudan, iraq, iran and among muslims in kashmir. there's a call in iran for nationwide rallies tomorrow. it appears to be a backlash at least in part from a low budget anti-islamic film which was made in the united states, first posted on youtube in july and recently publicized in the middle east. here's what we're also learning tonight. federal officials say the filmmaker's name is nakoul nakoula basseley nakoula. that name is very im
protesters rising up in at least nine middle eastern countries today their target the united states. this is cairo tonight. you're looking at pictures here as you can see flames, molotov cocktails, hundreds of angry protesters amassed outside of the american embassy. security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets to hold them out. even canada out of caution closed their embassy in cairo. a photo cairo, it's a chalk drawing on the ground of a jewish star of david with the words, i'll...
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states. >> this is a fairly volatile situation and it is in response not to the united states policy, not to obviously the administration, not to the american people. it is in response to a video, a film. >> really? because of a video? the ayatollah khomeini didn't need a video to take 52 americans hostage for 444 days. and those who hated us enough to bomb the u.s.s. cole in sudan didn't see a movie first. al qaeda didn't need a video to plan for years to kill 3,000 innocent americans on our own soil on 9-11. by the way, how does the white house know it was the video that caused protests in 33 countries? haven't they repeatedly said they don't have all of the facts? even the fbi in charge of this very investigation couldn't get to libya to investigate because it is so dangerous. why is the white house spinning? why when the middle east is burning and chanting death to america is the white house saying it is all because of the 14 minute amateur trailer. let's assume for a second it was the video. what is gives any one the right to kill innocent americans over a perceived insult to th
states. >> this is a fairly volatile situation and it is in response not to the united states policy, not to obviously the administration, not to the american people. it is in response to a video, a film. >> really? because of a video? the ayatollah khomeini didn't need a video to take 52 americans hostage for 444 days. and those who hated us enough to bomb the u.s.s. cole in sudan didn't see a movie first. al qaeda didn't need a video to plan for years to kill 3,000 innocent...
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president of the united states, busy. prime minister's schedule was very narrow. and we couldn't make it happen during that time slot. but the prime minister is meeting with the secretary of state clinton tonight. he's having another conversation with president obama tomorrow. on the phone. president obama has said he has spent more hours face-to-face talking to prime minister netanyahu, talking to him on the phone than any other foreign leader, and that's going on -- that level of conversation is going on at all different levels. >> ambassador, thank you. >> always. >>> president obama as we said obviously as you know, has been getting a lot of heat from his critics for not meeting face-to-face with prime minister netanyahu or any other world leaders during the u.n.'s meeting. the fact he made time this week to go on the talk show "the view" only gave his critics more fuel. i spoke earlier to cnn political analyst david gergen and white house correspondent dan lothian. david, you heard the ambassador talking. obviously he's not going to wade into the u.s. politic
president of the united states, busy. prime minister's schedule was very narrow. and we couldn't make it happen during that time slot. but the prime minister is meeting with the secretary of state clinton tonight. he's having another conversation with president obama tomorrow. on the phone. president obama has said he has spent more hours face-to-face talking to prime minister netanyahu, talking to him on the phone than any other foreign leader, and that's going on -- that level of conversation...
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president obama, i just don't understand the president of the united states. this is our one ally in had the middle east. >> dumb question on my part, but why did jews overwhelmingly in this country vote democratic and in this case lean so heavily on the president? >> i think it is a disease. it has to be dealt with. it is unfortunate. the fact is most jews in america or a good number of jews in america the issue of the well-being of israel the relationship between the u.s. and israel is not the most important issue. things like gay marriage and abortion are much more important. but there are a great number of jews and the latest polls indicate clearly the jews are moving away from the president. and i can't understand any one who cares about the democracy of the middle east called israel. i can't understand how any one would take a chance of giving obama four more years in the white house. >> thank you very much. >> in the meantime take the next 7 weeks off and call me when you get back. what if your boss offered you that? not in your boss is harry reid. >> h
president obama, i just don't understand the president of the united states. this is our one ally in had the middle east. >> dumb question on my part, but why did jews overwhelmingly in this country vote democratic and in this case lean so heavily on the president? >> i think it is a disease. it has to be dealt with. it is unfortunate. the fact is most jews in america or a good number of jews in america the issue of the well-being of israel the relationship between the u.s. and...
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and may god continue to bless the united states of america. and now, let me have the great honor of introducing someone who came to the state department earlier this week to grieve with us. he well understands and values the work that these men were doing for our country. the president of the united states. >> scripture teaches us greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. glen doherty never shied from adventure. he believed that in his life he could make a difference by calling a fulfilled as a navy seal. he served with dings in iraq and worked in afghanistan. and there in benghazi as he tended to others, he laid down his life. loyal as always, protecting his friends. today glen is home. tyrone woods devoted 20 years of his life to the seals. the consummate quiet professional. the salty -- he served in iraq and afghanistan and there in benghazi he was far from dorothy and tyrone junior, hunter and little kai. and he laid down his life as he would have for them protecting his friends. and today, tyrone is
and may god continue to bless the united states of america. and now, let me have the great honor of introducing someone who came to the state department earlier this week to grieve with us. he well understands and values the work that these men were doing for our country. the president of the united states. >> scripture teaches us greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. glen doherty never shied from adventure. he believed that in his life he could...
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states and the nature of its dependency on the united states. if it had done that, done its homework, i would have expected a much stronger condemnation of the protests at the embassy, just as we saw from libya and yemen. we haven't that in egypt. >> andrea, you have great sources behind the scenes. what are you hearing as jim just said, no one knows truly what to expect in just a minute tomorrow as the so-called peaceful protests are encouraged with president morsi. just today dozens of people injured together. >> what i think our other team members on the ground have been reporting is, tamron, it is completely unpredictable. a sfas a spark can set things off. there can be an organized drel in the middle of the group, and they can use public anger over that video, the hateful video that hillary clinton and the president denounced in the strongest possible terms today to set off the rest of the crowd. mob reactions once a protest is under way is hard to predict. what happened in libya is also unal intelligence we can report is that they do not t
states and the nature of its dependency on the united states. if it had done that, done its homework, i would have expected a much stronger condemnation of the protests at the embassy, just as we saw from libya and yemen. we haven't that in egypt. >> andrea, you have great sources behind the scenes. what are you hearing as jim just said, no one knows truly what to expect in just a minute tomorrow as the so-called peaceful protests are encouraged with president morsi. just today dozens of...
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>> "outfront" now protests spreading around the world all directed at the united states and we're learning more about the film and filmmaker at the center of the outrage. plus some progress in finding those responsible for the death of the american ambassador to libya, let's go "outfront". >>> good evening i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight turmoil spreading. protesters rising up in at least nine middle eastern countries today their target the united states. this is cairo tonight. you're looking at pictures here as you can see flames, molotov cocktails, hundreds of angry protesters amassed outside of the american embassy. security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets to hold them out. even canada out of caution closed their embassy in cairo. a photo cairo, it's a chalk drawing on the ground of a jewish star of david with the words, i'll translate, remember your black day september 11th within in arabic. and it is beyond cairo tonight. anti-u.s. demonstrators clashed in front of u.s. embassies, in israel, sudan, iraq, iran and among muslims in kashmir. there's a call in iran for natio
>> "outfront" now protests spreading around the world all directed at the united states and we're learning more about the film and filmmaker at the center of the outrage. plus some progress in finding those responsible for the death of the american ambassador to libya, let's go "outfront". >>> good evening i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight turmoil spreading. protesters rising up in at least nine middle eastern countries today their target the...
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imagine the united states, if they had done -- what macho would have said. everybody, like the boston massacre, just mow down everybody trying to cross the embassy walls, just kill them all. >> right. >> what's sad, also, is that we're actually paying any attention to sarah palin. let's be clear here, sarah palin's constituency are people who wear red rubber noses and bells on their shoes. but what's noteworthy here is that sarah palin speaks for, what, maybe half of the republican party. and as joan mentioned, she sounds -- and if she and mitt romney sound just alike right now. >> well, you just said two different things, ron, my friend. you said that she doesn't speak for anybody. then -- or she doesn't have a constituency, and then you said she speaks for half the party. >> no, no, no. i'm saying we shouldn't pay attention to her because her constituency are ignorant and foolish people, but ignorant and foolish people make up about half of the republican party right now. that's what i'm saying. and that's the only thing noteworthy about what she's doing.
imagine the united states, if they had done -- what macho would have said. everybody, like the boston massacre, just mow down everybody trying to cross the embassy walls, just kill them all. >> right. >> what's sad, also, is that we're actually paying any attention to sarah palin. let's be clear here, sarah palin's constituency are people who wear red rubber noses and bells on their shoes. but what's noteworthy here is that sarah palin speaks for, what, maybe half of the republican...
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. >> today we mourn four more americans who represent the very best of the united states of america. we will not waiver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act and make no mistake, justice will be done. >> the friendship between our countries born out of shared struggle will not be another casualty of this attack. a free and stable libya is still in america's interest and security. and we will not turn our back on that. >> meanwhile, mitt romney condemned the loss of american lives but he also seized on the attacks even before daybreak slamming the administration's response in what became a fierce back and forth between the two campaigns. romney then doubled down this morning. >> i spoke out when the key fact that i referred to was known which was that the embassy of the united states issued what appeared to be an apology for american principles. that was a mistake. and i believe that when a mistake is made of that significance you speak out. >> we start our coverage right now with nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel in cairo, egypt. >> repo
. >> today we mourn four more americans who represent the very best of the united states of america. we will not waiver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act and make no mistake, justice will be done. >> the friendship between our countries born out of shared struggle will not be another casualty of this attack. a free and stable libya is still in america's interest and security. and we will not turn our back on that. >> meanwhile, mitt romney...
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states. -- critial sectors in the united states. how concerned are you about that increased activity? what can you tell us about it in terms of what they are after and how serious it is? >> first as you know, we are under constant cyber attacks, including the large part of our infrastructure that heare privately owned. telecommunications, electric power grid, finance, all the rest. that is why we work so hard for the cyber security legislation. the recent cyber attacks on some major american financial institutions including the bank of america, jpmorgan chase, are a powerful example of our vulnerability. on an islamist extremist website a few days ago, these attacks were announced. they were explains that it was -- they were explained that it was their intention to attack the banks and new york stock exchange in response to the anti-muslim video. i do not believe these were just hackers who were skilled enough to cause the destruction of the website of cyberspace of bank of -- to cause the disruption of the website of the cyberspace
states. -- critial sectors in the united states. how concerned are you about that increased activity? what can you tell us about it in terms of what they are after and how serious it is? >> first as you know, we are under constant cyber attacks, including the large part of our infrastructure that heare privately owned. telecommunications, electric power grid, finance, all the rest. that is why we work so hard for the cyber security legislation. the recent cyber attacks on some major...